Spring 2013 CCCOER Webinar Lineup

Welcome to the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCOER) Spring 2013 webinar lineup. Our webinars feature leaders and thinkers in open education with relevance to community college faculty, staff, students, and administrators. No pre-registration is required and they are free and open to all interested in advancing open education to improve teaching and learning. All archives and slides are available within a few days at our ARCHIVE PAGE.

Hear how three OER adoption projects formed sustainable communities of faculty and staff to customize open textbooks and OER to better meet the needs of students at their colleges. This webinar features Kaleidoscope Project at College of the Redwoods, Cuyahoga Community College, and Scottsdale Community College on their challenges and wins in finding, evaluating, and adapting high-quality OER to replace high cost publisher textbooks.Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 1:00 PM EST

Learn about the critical role that librarians play in OER search and curation and how they model this for faculty and students. This webinar features librarians from Maricopa Community College District involved in creation and curation of OER, the Director of Library Services for Houston Community College District on facilitating search of OER, and a Open Course Library (OCL) librarian who trains faculty on how to find, develop, and license OER.